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Waltercio Caldas, Absoluto, 2017, Acrylic on cardboard and stainless steel, 44 x 72 x 40 cm, Photo: Jaime Acioli, Courtesy Galerie Xippas and Galeria Raquel Arnaud

ART CITIES:Paris-Waltercio Caldas

Working in a variety of mediums, Waltercio Caldas examines the physical qualities of objects and spaces, challenging the assumptions viewers bring to the act of looking. He defines his practice as the act of sculpting the distance between objects, inverting the conventional definition of sculpture as a dense, self-contained volume. …

Photo: Αthina Perka, © Αthina Perka

MIRAGES XLIII

December is the last month of the year, once this month induced me sorrow, especially on Christmas Eve, but slowly over the …

Image courtesy of © Anil Bawa-Cavia/STD-IO, aHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-1948 Unbound

With the beginning of the atomic, digital, and petrochemical era, the year 1948 marks a turning point in the history of Earth, …

Kiki Smith, Receive, 2016, Blackened bronze, 32.4×61×30.5 cm, Ed. 1/6 + 1 AP, Courtesy the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese-Milano

ART-PREVIEW:Kiki Smith-Quest

Kiki Smith’s work resists both modern and classical notions of beauty, trading in the easily fetishized exterior of the body for the …

Ryoji Ikeda, data.matrix [nº1-10], 2009, Audiovisual installation, 10 DLP projectors, computers, speakers, wooden plinths, Variable dimensions, © Ryoji Ikeda, Photo: Ryuichi Maruo, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda has gained reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately …

Dinh Q. Lê, The Colony (Video Still), 2016, Five-channel video installation, three projections, two monitors, colour, sound, Overall dimensions variable, Various durations, © Dinh Q. Lê, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Archive

ART CITIES:Rotterdam-Dinh Q. Lê

Dinh Q. Lê is best known for his large-scale photographic weavings and video works that question the way in which world events …

Cai Guo-Qiang, Day and Night in Toledo, 2017, Gunpowder on canvas, 260 x 600 cm, © Cai Guo-Qiang, Courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado

ART CITIES:Madrid-Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang is considered one of the most significant artists active today, his versatile and creative approach to materials is as impressive …

Ed Atkins, Old Food (Production Still), 2017, © Ed Atkins, Courtesy the artist, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi-Berlin, Cabinet Gallery-London, Gavin Brown's Enterprise-New York and dependence-Brussels, Martin-Gropius-Bau Archive

ART-PRESENTATION:Ed Atkins-Old Food

Ed Atkins’ computer-generated films feature shabby, lonely protagonists with disarming and marked fidelity. His animations demonstrate their digital constitution, their near-total artifice, …

Memed Erdener, Hand of the State (Detail), 2017, Oil pastel on paper, 140 x 100 cm, © Memed Erdener, Courtesy the artist and Zilberman Gallery-Istanbul/Berlin

ART CITIES:Berlin-Memed Erdener

Memed Erdener (aka Extrastruggle) is an artist known for his work that direct references to the political atmosphere and history of the …

Ali Kazma, Tea Time (Video Still), 2017, Synchronized triptych HD video, color, sound, 7 min 17 sec, © Ali Kazma, Courtesy the artist

PHOTO:Ali Kazma-Souterrain,Part II

Ali Kazma works with lens-based media. All aver the world, he investigates situations, places and structures relating to man’s ability to transform …

Alex Katz, Laura 2, 2017, Oil on linen, 121,9 x 487,7 cm, © Alex Katz, Bildrecht, Wien 2017, Photo: Paul Takeuch, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Salzburg-Alex Katz

Alex Katz’s portraits feature his own social milieu: friends, fellow artists, and most notably his wife Ada, whom he has painted more …

Chen Zhou, Blue Hole (Video Still), 2017, HD Video, Duration: 26’03”, Music: Gao Jiafeng, © Chen Zhou, Courtesy the artist and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

ART CITIES:Beijing-Cold Nights

Set in 1940s Chongqing, Ba Jin’s novel “Cold Nights” recounts the collapse of a family of intellectuals owing to domestic conflict and …

Cameron Jamie, Drawing (Detail), Bernier-Eliades Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Athens-Cameron Jamie

Cameron Jamie’s work created over the past 20 years, ranges through a wide range of media: performance, video, sculpture, installation, photography and …